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Coherent director rotation and memory effects, and their dependence on the morphology of the constituent molecules in thiol-ene polymer stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal system

  • Lim, Tong-Kun;Lee, Ji-Hoon
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.199-202
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    • 2005
  • We have studied the origin of coherent director rotation [CDR] as well as memory behavior in thiol-ene polymer stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal [FLC]. The ene constituents are found to be always located at the inter-layer space and induce the coherent director rotation motion of liquid crystal molecule. On the other hand, the thiols are more intersticed between ferroelectric liquid crystal molecules at intra-layer as the thiol gets longer, and these intersticed thiols enhance the multistability and the resolution of memory state of FLCs.

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Stamping-assisted Fabrication Technique of the Bidirectional Alignment Layer for Wide-Viewing Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays

  • Koo, Kyung-Mo;Na, Jun-Hee;Kim, Yeun-Tae;Li, Hongmei;Lee, Sin-Doo
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.180-183
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    • 2009
  • A stamping-assisted rubbing technique for generating bidirectional alignment in the fabrication of wide-viewing twistednematic (TN) liquid crystal displays (LCDs) was developed. A patterned layer of a fluorinated acrylate polymer was transferred onto the first rubbed alignment layer prepared on a substrate by stamping. The fluorinated acrylate polymer provides a protective layer that covers the first alignment layer during the second rubbing process to facilitate the bidirectional alignment of the LC molecules. The LC cell in the twisted geometry with two bidirectional-alignment layers showed stable electro-optic properties and wide-viewing characteristics. The stamping-assisted rubbing technique serves as a mask-free alignment method of producing multidomains for wide-viewing LCDs.

An electric conductive-probe technique for measuring the liquid fuel layer in the intake manifold

  • Kajitani, S.;Sawa, N.;Rhee, K.T.;Hayashi, S.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1990.10b
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    • pp.1184-1189
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    • 1990
  • In order to investigate liquid fuel filming over the intake manifold wall, an electrode-type probe has been developed by lines of authors and this probe was employed in a single cylinder two and four-stroke cycle engine and in a four cylinder four-stroke engine operated by neat methanol fuel. The performance of the probe was dependent upon several parameters including the liquid fuel layer thickness, temperature, additive in the fuel, and electric power source (i.e., AC and voltage level) and was independent of other variables such as direction of liquid flow with respect to the probe arrangement. Several new findings from this study may be in order. The flow velocity of the fuel layer in the intake manifold of engine was about (if the air velocity in the steady state operation, the layer thickness of liquid fuel varied in both the circumferential and longitydinal directions. In the transient operation of the engine, the temporal variation of fuel thickness was determined, which clearly suggests that there was difference between fuel/air ratio in the intake manifold and that in the cylinder. The variation was greatly affected by the engine speed, fuel/air ratio and throttle opening. And the variation was also very significant from cylinder to cylinder and it was particularly strong different engine speeds and throttle opening.

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Failure and Phase Transformation Mechanism of Multi-Layered Nitride Coating for Liquid Metal Injection Casting Mold

  • Jeon, Changwoo;Lee, Juho;Park, Eun Soo
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.331-338
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    • 2021
  • Ti-Al-Si target and Cr-Si target are sputtered alternately to develop a multi-layered nitride coating on a steel mold to improve die-casting lifetime. Prior to the multi-layer deposition, a CrN layer is developed as a buffer layer on the mold to suppress the diffusion of reactive elements and enhance the cohesive strength of the multi-layer deposition. Approximately 50 nm CrSiN and TiAlSiN layers are deposited layer by layer, and form about three ㎛-thickness of multi-layered coating. From the observation of the uncoated and coated steel molds after the acceleration experiment of liquid metal injection casting, the uncoated mold is severely eroded by the adhesion of molten metallic glass. On the other hand, the multi-layer coating on the mold prevents element diffusion from the metallic glass and mold erosion during the experiment. The multi-layer structure of the coating transforms the nano-composite structured coating during the acceleration test. Since the nano-composite structure disrupts element diffusion to molten metallic glass, despite microstructure changes, the coating is not eroded by the 1,050 ℃ molten metallic glass.

Study on the Electrochemical Characteristics of a EGaIn Liquid Metal Electrode for Supercapacitor Applications (수퍼커패시터 응용을 위한 EGaIn 액체 금속 전극의 전기화학 특성 연구)

  • SO, JU-HEE;KOO, HYUNG-JUN
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.176-181
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    • 2016
  • Recent years, supercapacitors have been attracting a growing attention as an efficient energy storage, due to their long-lifetime, device reliability, simple device structure and operation mechanism and, most importantly, high power density. Along with the increasing interest in flexible/stretchable electronics, the supercapacitors with compatible mechanical properties have been also required. A eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn) liquid metal could be a strong candidate as a soft electrode material of the supercapacitors because of its insulating surface oxide layer for electric double layer formation. Here, we report the electrochemical study on the charging/reaction process at the interface of EGaIn liquid metal and electrolyte. Numerical fitting of the charging current curves provides the capacitance of EGaIn/insulating layer/electrolyte (${\sim}38F/m^2$). This value is two orders of magnitude higher than a capacitance of a general metal electrode/electrolyte interface.

An Experimental Study on the Frost Prevention using Micro Liquid Film of an Antifreeze Solution

  • Chang Young-Soo;Yun Won-Nam
    • International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.66-75
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    • 2006
  • The effect of antifreeze solution liquid film on the frost prevention is experimentally investigated. It is desirable that the antifreeze solution spreads widely on the heat exchanger surface forming thin liquid film to prevent frost nucleation while having small thermal resistance across the film. A porous layer coating technique is adopted to improve the wettability of the antifreeze solution on a parallel plate heat exchanger. The antifreeze solution spreads widely on the heat exchanger surface with $100{\mu}m$ thickness by the capillary force resulted from the porous structure. It is observed that the antifreeze solution liquid film prevents a parallel plate heat exchanger from frosting. The reductions of heat and mass transfer rate caused by the thin liquid film are only $1{\sim}2%$ compared with those for non-liquid film surface.

A Study on the Radiation Heat Transfer Characteristics of Liquid Droplet Radiator (액적방열기의 복사열전달 특성에 관한 연구)

  • 김금무;김용모;김경근
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.32-40
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    • 1994
  • The radiative heat transfer analysis in particle layer has an inherent difficulty in treating the governing integro-differential equations, which are derived from the remote effects. Most of the existing analyses are limited to the one dimensional system, taking into account only absorption or isotropic scatting of solid particles. Fortunately, a new Monte Carlo Simulation method is recently developed to analyse multidimensional radiative heat transfer in particles with anisotropically scatting. By this method, the present study analyses the radiative heat transfer in dispersed particles through the numerous droplets in the liquid droplet radiator to develop a technique of liquid droplet radiator. Consequently, knows that the radiative heat flux in particle layer is influenced by exitinction coefficient, optical thickness and surface area of particles in the system.

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Electrochemical Characterization of Electric Double Layer Capacitors Assembled with Pyrrolidinium-Based Ionic Liquid Electrolytes

  • Cho, Jinhyun;Shin, Won-Kyung;Kim, Dong-Won;Kim, Young Rae;Lee, Byung Jun;Kim, Sang-Gil
    • Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.199-205
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    • 2016
  • We present the electrochemical performance of electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs) assembled with pyrrolidinium (Pyr)-based ionic liquid electrolytes at 55 ℃. Cations with various alkyl chain lengths were employed in Pyr-based ionic liquids to investigate the effect of cation structure on the cycling stability of EDLCs. The EDLCs exhibited initial specific capacitances ranging from 122.4 to 131.6 F g−1 based on activated carbon material at 55 ℃. Cycling data and XPS results demonstrate that Pyr-based ionic liquid with longer alkyl chain is more effective for enhancing the cycling stability of EDLC by suppressing the reductive decomposition of pyrrolidinium cations during cycling at high temperatures.

Optical Model of a Human Eye's Crystalline Lens Based on a Three-layer Liquid Lens

  • Kong, Meimei;Chen, Xin;Yuan, Yang;Zhao, Rui;Chen, Tao;Liang, Zhongcheng
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.177-180
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    • 2019
  • Based on liquid-lens technology and our previous findings on the optical model of the Chinese eye, the liquid lens is applied in the research of the crystalline-lens optical model. Theoretical models of three-layer liquid lenses are built with COMSOL software, and the effect of voltage on the shape of the interface between two liquids is analyzed. By polynomial fitting, different equations describing the interface shape are set up under different voltages. Finally, the optical system of the human eye with a three-layer liquid lens is built and analyzed with Zemax optical design software, and moreover the optical system models of emmetropia, myopia, and hyperopia are presented. This method to build a model of the human eye with a variable-focus liquid lens can provide a novel idea for more practical human-eye models for clinical regulation and control in the future.

The Effect of Layer Spacing Changes in the SmA Phase on Defects Observed in SSFLC Devices.

  • Wang, Chenhui;Bos, Philip J.;Kumar, Satyendra;Wand, Michael;Handschy, Mark
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.193-197
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    • 2004
  • The effect of the temperature dependence of the smectic layer spacing in the smectic-A (SmA) phase on the formation of defects in the ferroelectric smectic-$C^{\ast}$ ($SmC^{\ast}$) phase is investigated with x-ray scattering technique. The study is based on thin parallel-aligned surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells with two different alignment conditions, high pretilt $SiO_x$, alignment and low pretilt polyimide films. It is found that defects observed in the $SmC^{\ast}$ phase have much more profound dependence on the layer changes and chevron formation in the SmA phase than in the $SmC^{\ast}$ phase. We find that thermal layer expansion with decreasing temperature in the SmA phase suppresses the formation of defects observed in the SmC phase.

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